Jan 06, 2026
Top 10 African Countries With the Highest Cost of Living in Early 2026
At the start of 2026, Africa’s highest cost-of-living pressures are driven less by income levels and more by structural prices, import dependence, and currency exposure....
Dec 31, 2025
How Strive Masiyiwa built Liquid Intelligent Technologies into the digital backbone of Africa
Strive Masiyiwa built Africa’s largest independent fiber network, laying over 110,000km of cable to connect the continent and transform landlocked nations into digital hubs....
Dec 29, 2025
Top 10 African Countries by Annual Population Reaching Military Age in 2025
Demographics increasingly shape Africa’s military potential. In 2025, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and the DRC led the continent in the number of people reaching military age annually, highlighting strategic and security implications across regions....
Dec 27, 2025
How Ashraf Sabry built Fawry into the digital payment backbone of North Africa
Ashraf Sabry dismantled Egypt’s reliance on physical cash by building Fawry, a digital payment giant that now processes millions of transactions daily and serves as a core financial utility for over 50 million users....
Dec 26, 2025
Top 10 African Secessionist Movements in History
Across Africa’s post-independence history, secessionist movements have challenged inherited borders and forced states, regions, and institutions to confront the limits of unity....
Dec 24, 2025
How Mitchell Elegbe built Interswitch into the sovereign payment rail of Africa
Mitchell Elegbe built Africa’s most important payments infrastructure, turning Nigeria’s fragmented, cash-heavy system into a high-volume digital network processing trillions of naira and supporting over 100 million Verve cards across Africa....
